UNDERGRADUATE TWINNING PROGRAM
Information for Interested Students
Eligibility
- Applicant must be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States or its territories.
- The applicant must be enrolled in an undergraduate degree program for the entirety of the 2025-2026 academic year. An undergraduate student is defined as a student who is enrolled in a degree program (part-time or full-time) leading to a baccalaureate or associate degree.
- All submitted projects this year are in-person. This means that students from institutions affiliated with one of the mentors, or from institutions located in the surrounding region, are eligible to apply.
Preferred Qualification
- Applicant has not previously participated in a research experience for undergraduates (REU) program.
For questions contact GEI Program Manager Shannon Fasola (sfasola@uoregon.edu).
2025-2026 Projects
Earthquake detection using machine learning tools in the Valles Caldera, New Mexico
Mentors:
Urbi Basu, New Mexico Tech
Akram Mostafanejad, EarthScope Consortium
Quantifying infrastructure resilience to volcanic hazards in Cascadia
Mentors:
Einat Lev, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Nathaniel Klema, Fort Lewis College
Enhancing Pacific Tsunami Warning Center Operations Through Geospatial Data Analysis and Visualization
Mentors:
Jonathan Weiss, NOAA/NWS/Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
Helen Janiszewski, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Assessing and Sharing Risk with a Rapid Earthquake Damage Estimation Tool for the Cascadia Region of Western Canada
Mentors:
Mike Brudzinski, Miami University
Tiegan Hobbs, Geological Survey of Canada; University of British Columbia
Exploring linkages between larger-scale aseismic slow fault slip and accompanying smaller-scale fast seismic slip
Mentors:
Joan Gomberg, US Geological Survey, Earthquake Hazards Program (Seattle, WA)
Kathryn Materna, University of Colorado Boulder
